Here you go Asu. The original report I read was in an old copy of omni and would have been dated prior to 1990. However, I did find this which I think should be of interest - and of concern to all willy owners.
Theres quite a list of things you should avoid.
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The problem is that 'xeno-oestrogens' may be found in such diverse things as shrink-wrap, pesticides, herbicides, solvents, various common drugs, washing-up water, detergents and even in soy milk and other soy products! Even reasonably low levels of water pollution are now known to quickly produce xeno-oestrogens: Fish in polluted waters have been observed to behave physiologically like females, and alligators in Florida's xeno-oestrogen rich everglades have inexplicably become predominantly female. A 2002 report in the Badger Herald stated this,
"Male fish are developing feminine characteristics from excess hormones in rivers and lakes, scientists say.
'In the 1990’s, scientists in Britain were starting to find a large number of male fish downstream of sewage treatment plants with eggs or egg proteins in their blood,' Fisheries and Oceans of Canada ecotoxicologist Karen Kidd said. 'Basically, these male fish were becoming feminized. It’s because they’re being exposed to either natural or synthetic hormones in sewage plant discharge.' Birth control pills and laundry detergents are just two of the 75 household compounds that might be causing male fish to develop eggs. Products such as birth control pills, detergents and insecticides contain chemicals mimicking the female hormone estrogen. Women who use birth control pills release synthetic estrogen in their urine. Laundry wastewater contains a significant amount of estrogen mimics from detergents. Sewage treatment plants can only break down about 80 percent of these estrogen mimics in wastewater. The remainder enters rivers and lakes and interferes with the hormone systems of fish and other aquatic life." (The Badger Herald: News: Human wastewater is feminizing male fish).
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Will More Womanly Men Have to be Accepted?
Strange but true apparently. Does it make you re-think our likestyles?